Summer Seminar in Papyrology

June 19-July 28, 2006

Columbia University

 

 

Faculty:                   Roger S. Bagnall (Columbia University)

                                              Heike Behlmer (Macquarie University)

                                              Raffaella Cribiore (Columbia University)

 

Location: Papyrology, Palaeography, and Epigraphy Room, 604 Butler Library

                        Open weekdays 9-9, Saturdays 11-6, Sundays 12-7

                        This room will be reserved exclusively for the seminar M-F 10-5 but open to other users during other hours. Please note that books do not circulate from this room.

 

Faculty office: 606 Hamilton Hall (854-5758)

 

Administrative support: Department of Classics, 607 Hamilton Hall (854-3902)

                        (Program coordinator: Elizabeth Bulls-Cela; Student assistant: David Ratzan)

 

Schedule

Daily

9-10                                 Coptic class (MTWTh)

10-10:15                   break

10:15-12:30         seminar meeting (typically, first hour lecture, followed by short break and

                                                an hour for practical work and discussion)

12:30-1:30             lunch

1:30-5                           individual study; TTh there will be an advanced Coptic reading group

                                                from 4-5 pm, and guest lectures will also usually be scheduled from 4-5 pm)

 

Seminar meetings by weeks

Week 1

Monday                     19 June                       Introduction to literary papyrology: palaeography, literacy,

                                                                                                                        genres of literature (RC/HB)

Tuesday                     20 June                       Education in late antiquity; school papyri (RC)

Wednesday          21 June                       Homer, the tragedians, reading in late antiquity (RC)

Thursday                  22 June                       The Bible in Greek and Coptic (RB/HB)

Friday                           23 June                       Manichaean and Gnostic texts (HB)

 

Week 2

Monday                     26 June                       Kellis: bilingualism, documents, Manichaeism, and

                                                                                                                        education (RB/HB)

Tuesday                     27 June                       The Bodmer papyri (RC)

Wednesday          28 June                       Monastic literature (HB)

Thursday                  29 June                       Women’s education and women’s letters (RC/RB)

                                                                                                Extra meeting (4-5 pm): Coptic school ostraka (RC/HB)

Friday                           30 June                       Latin papyri and the study of Latin (RC)

 

Week 3

Monday                     3 July                             Holiday

Tuesday                     4 July                             Holiday

Wednesday          5 July                             Shenoute and his federation (HB)

Thursday                  6 July                            Oracles, the Sortes Astrampsychi (RC)

                                                                                                Guest lecture (4-5 pm): AnneMarie Luijendijk,

                                                                                                The Sortes Mariae

Friday                           7 July                            Dioskoros of Aphrodite: the reader, rhetorician, and poet (RC)

 

Week 4

Monday                     10 July                         Dioskoros of Aphrodite: the bilingual notable (RB/HB)

Tuesday                     11 July                         Archive of Aurelius Isidoros;  taxation (RB)

                                                                                                Guest lecture (4-5 pm): Rodney Ast, The Archive of Sakaon

Wednesday          12 July                         Aurelia Charite: the economy of a wealthy woman (RB)

Thursday                  13 July                         John of Lykopolis: the influential anchorite (HB/RB)

                                                                                                p.m. Visit to Princeton University Library

Friday                           14 July                         Oxyrhynchite civic life (RB)

 

Week 5

Monday                     17 July                         Nessana: documents outside Egypt (RB)

Tuesday                     18 July                       Petra: documents outside Egypt (RB)                      

Wednesday          19 July                         Hagiography (HB)

Thursday                  20 July                         Magic (HB)

Friday                           21 July                         The Apion archive: the Great Houses (Giovanni Ruffini)

 

Week 6

Monday                     24 July                         Taurinos archive: military and clergy in the land economy (RB)

                                                                                                p.m. Visit to American Numismatic Society

Tuesday                     25 July                         Patermouthis: the military in family archives (RB)

Wednesday          26 July                         Qurrah b. Sharik: the Arab administration post-conquest (HB/RB)

Thursday                  27 July                         Jeme and its area: Law, settlement, monasteries (HB/RB)

                                                                                                p.m. Visit to Pierpont Morgan Library

Friday                           28 July                         The Monastery of Bawit (HB)

 

 

Reading:

Participants will be given copies of the working draft of the Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, a 29-author work edited by Roger Bagnall. This covers a wide variety of topics, not all directly relevant to the seminar’s focus on Late Antiquity. Each participant will be expected to provide a detailed comment on the manuscript at the end of the seminar, discussing important gaps, overlaps, contradictions, or other needs to be dealt with in the editing and revision of the volume, which is supposed to go to press early in the fall.

 

In addition, the following is a list of books relevant for the literary parts of the seminar and particularly to the first week:

 

Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Herwig Maehler. 1987. Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period. London. Z113.8.C64 1974 [Reserves]

Cribiore, Raffaella. 1996. Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Atlanta. (also online as an Electronic book) P211.3.E3 C75 [Pap. Rm 604]

                   ─2001. Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Princeton. LA 75.C75 2001 [Reserves]

Gallo, Italo. 1986. Greek and Latin Papyrology. London. PA 3341.G313 [Pap. Rm 604]

Gardner, Iain and S.N.C. Lieu. 2004. Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire. Cambridge. [Reserves]

Gardthausen, Viktor E. 1911. Griechische Palaeographie. Leipzig. Z114.G24 1879 [Pap. Rm 604]

Gignac, Francis T. 1976-1981. A Grammar of the Greek Papyri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods. I-II Milan. PA 3367.G5 [Pap. Rm 604]

Harris, William V. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge, Mass. 1989. (also online as an Electronic book) PA53 .H37 1989 [Reserves]

Humphrey, J.H. ed. Literacy in the Roman World. Ann Arbor 1991. [Reserves]

Johnson, William A. 2004. Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus. Toronto. [Pap. Rm 604]

Metzger, Bruce M. 1991. “New Testament, Coptic Versions of the,” in Coptic Encyclopedia 6:  1787-1789. [3rd fl. Ref. Room; copy: Pap. Rm 604]

Montevecchi, Orsolina. 1988. La papirologia. Milan. PA 3341.M6 [Pap. Rm 604]

Morgan, Teresa. Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds. Cambridge 1998. [Reserves]

Nagel, Peter. 1991. “Old Testament, Coptic Translations of,” in Coptic Encyclopedia 6: 1836-1840. [3rd fl. Ref. Room; copy: Pap. Rm 604]

Pack, Roger A. 1965. The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt. Ann Arbor. Z6605.G7 P3 [Pap. Rm 604]

Roberts, C.H. Greek Literary Hands. Oxford. Z114.R6 [usually shelved in AncMed Rm 603, though often mis-shelved in Pap. Rm 604]

Robinson J. M. (ed.). 1990. The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 3rd rev. edition. Leiden. BT1391 .A3 1990g [Reserves]

Schubart, Wilhelm. 1911. Papyri Graecae Berolinenses. Bonn. PA 3316.S4 [Pap. Rm 604]

                   ─1925. Griechische Palaeographie. Munich. Z105.S38 1925 [Pap. Rm 604]

Seider, Richard. 1967-  Palaeographie der griechischen Papyri. Stuttgart. Z113.8.S4 [Pap. Rm 604]

Turner, Eric G. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Oxford 1980. (also online as an Electronic book). Z6605.G7 T8 1980 [Reserves]

                   ─Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World. 2nd. Ed. London.  Z113.8.T87 1987 [Pap. Rm 604]

Wisse, Frederik. “The Coptic Versions of the New Testament,” in: Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes (eds.), The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research. Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Grand Rapids: 131-141. [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604]

 

Reading for subsequent weeks (references to text editions use the abbreviations of the Checklist of Editions):

 

Reading for Week 2

Kellis: P.Kellis I-V.

Adams, J.N. Bilingualism and the Latin Language. Cambridge 2003. [Reserves]

P.Bodmer

Monastic literature: Goehring, J. E. 1990. “Monasticism,” in Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, ed. E. Ferguson. New York: 612-619. [3rd fl. Ref. Room; copy: Pap. Rm 604]

 

Reading for Week 3

Shenoute: Krawiec, R. 2002. Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery. Oxford: 13-30. [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604] Kuhn, K.-H. 1954. “A Fifth Century Egyptian Abbot. II. Monastic Life in Besa’s Day,” Journal of Theological Studies NS 5: 174-187 [Copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Bell, D. N. 1983. Besa, the Life of Shenoute. Kalamazoo: §§ 89-130, pp. 68-79 [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604].

Sortes: Sortes Astrampsychi vol. 1-2, Teubner, ed. G.M. Bowne and R. Stewart PA4435 .S413 1983g [Reserves]

Dioskoros: Fournet, J.-L. 1999. Hellénisme dans l’Égypte du VI siècle. Cairo. [Pap. Rm 604]

 

Reading for Week 4

Dioskoros: MacCoull, L.S.B. 1988. Dioscorus of Aphrodito: His Life and his World. Berkeley PA3968.D62 Z78 1988 [Reserves];

see also Fournet 1999 (Week 3)

Isidoros: P.Cair.Isid., P.Col. VII, P.NYU I

Sakaon: P.Sakaon

Charite: P.Charite

John of Lykopolis: Zuckerman, C. 1995. “The Hapless Recruit Psois and the Mighty Anchorite, Apa John,” BASP 32: 183-94 [Pap. Rm 604; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Van Minnen, P. 1994. “The Roots of Egyptian Christianity,” AfP 40: 80-85 [Pap. Rm 604; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Brown, P. 1971 “The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity,” JRS 61:  80-101 [available on JSTOR; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Russell, Norman. 1981. The Lives of the Desert Fathers. The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, Kalamazoo: 52-64 and 142-147 BR1706 .H5713 1981  [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604].

Oxyrhynchite civic life: Tacoma, L. E. 2006. Fragile hierarchies : the urban elites of third century Roman Egypt. Leiden. HN786.Z9 E48 2006g [Reserves]

 

Reading for Week 5

Nessana: P.Ness. I-III

Petra: P.Petra I

Hagiography: van den Berg-Onstwedder, G. 1990. “Diocletian in the Coptic Tradition,”Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 29: 87-122. [copy: Pap. Rm 604]

Magic : Meyer, M. and R. Smith, eds. 1994. Ancient Christian Magic. Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. San Francisco: Introduction [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604].

Apions: Hardy, E. R. 1931. Large Estates of Byzantine Egypt. New York: 25-50 DT67 .H27  [Pap. Rm 604; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Gascou, J. 1985. “Les grands domaines, la cité, et l’État en Égypte byzantine”, Travaux et Mémoires 9: 7-19, 61-75 [copy: Pap. Rm 604]

 

Reading for Week 6

Taurinos: BGU XII

Patermouthis: Porten, B. 1996. Elephantine Papyri in English. Leiden. DS1 .D6 v.22 [Reserves]

Qurrah: Frantz-Murphy, Gladys, Umayyads, Copts under the, in: Coptic Encyclopedia 7 (1991), 2286-2289 [3rd fl. Ref. Room; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Frantz-Murphy, Gladys, “Conversion in Early Islamic Egypt: The Economic Factor,” in: Yusuf Ragib (ed.), Documents de l’Islam médiéval: Nouvelles perspectives de recherches, Cairo 1991, 11-17 DS38.3 .D65 1991 [Reserves; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Gellens, Sam I., Egypt, Islamization of, in: Coptic Encyclopedia 4 (1991), 936-942 [3rd fl. Ref. Room; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; Wilfong Terry, “The non-Muslim Communities: Christian communities”, in: Carl F. Petry  (ed.), The Cambridge History of Egypt vol. I: Islamic Egypt 640-1517, Cambridge 1998, 175-197 DT94 .C36 1998 [Islamic Rm 602; copy Pap. Rm 604].

Jeme: Wilfong, T. G. 2002. Women of Jeme. Ann Arbor [Reserves]; Wilfong, T. 1989: “Western Thebes in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries: A Bibliographic Survey of Jême and its Sur­­­roun­dings”, BASP 26: 89-145 [Pap. Rm 604; copy: Pap. Rm 604]; MacCoull, L. S. B. “Apa Abraham: Testament of Apa Abraham, Bishop of Hermonthis for the Monastery of St. Phoibammon near Thebes, Egypt,”Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents, ed. J. Thomas and A. C. Hero, Dumbarton Oaks Studies 35, 2000, 51-58 [available on the internet at: http://www.doaks.org/typikaPDF/typ007.pdf]; Testament of Elias and Jacob from Crum, W. E. and H. G. Evelyn White, The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. Part II: Coptic Ostraca and Pa­­­­pyri; Greek Ostraca and Papyri. New York 1926: Appendix III (pp. 343-48) DT73.T3 W48 1926 [Pap. Rm 604]

Bawit: Clackson, S. 2000. Coptic and Greek texts relating to the Hermopolite monastery of Apa Apollo. Oxford:  chs. 1-3. DT73.B38 C53 2000g [Reserves]